The year 1890 in art involved some significant events.
Events
January 18 – February 23 – Seventh annual exhibition of Les XX in Brussels includes a display of work by Vincent van Gogh. Henry de Groux criticises his paintings but Albert Aurier praises them. From the exhibition, van Gogh sells The Red Vineyard to Anna Boch, said to be the only sale of his work during his lifetime. March 20 – April 27 – The Société des Artistes Indépendants show in Paris includes a major display of van Gogh paintings. May 20 – Van Gogh moves to Auvers-sur-Oise on the edge of Paris in the care of Dr Paul Gachet where he will produce around seventy paintings in as many days. More than a dozen are size 30 canvases (92 x 65 cm). June–July – Van Gogh develops his double-square painting technique, e.g. in the July paintings Wheatfield with Crows and Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds. July 27 – Death of Vincent van Gogh: van Gogh perhaps paints Tree Roots, then apparently shoots himself, dying two days later. September 20 – Theo van Gogh, assisted by Émile Bernard, mounts an improvised retrospective exhibition of his brother Vincent's works in Theo's former Paris apartment. November – Lucien Pissarro settles permanently in London. Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts revived in Paris under the leadership of Ernest Meissonier (its President), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Jules Dalou, Auguste Rodin, Carolus-Duran, Bracquemond and Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, with an annual exhibition reviewed as the Salon de Champ-de-Mars, opening a fortnight later than the official Paris Salon. Claude Monet begins painting his Haystacks series. Newlyn Industrial Class set up at the fishing port in Cornwall (England) and begins production of Newlyn Copper repoussé work.
Works
Anna Ancher – Syende fiskerpige (Sewing Fisherman's Wife) William-Adolphe Bouguereau L'Amour et Psyché, enfants The Bohemian Gabrielle Cot A Little Coaxing Frank Brangwyn – Funeral at Sea Dennis Miller Bunker – Jessica Edward Burne-Jones The Legend of Briar Rose with William Morris and John Henry Dearle – The Adoration of the Magi (tapestry woven by Morris & Co. for Exeter College, Oxford) Cyrus Edwin Dallin – Signal of Peace (bronze) Thomas Dewing – Summer Francis Edwin Elwell – Dickens and Little Nell (bronze) Henri Fantin-Latour – Portrait of Sonia Fidus (Hugo Höppener) – Light Prayer J. W. Godward Athenais Flowers Of Venus A Pompeian Bath James Guthrie – The Morning Paper John Haberle – The Palette William Harnett – The Faithful Colt (Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut) Jonathan Scott Hartley – Daguerre Memorial (Washington, D.C.) Martin Johnson Heade – Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth Ferdinand Hodler – Night (Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland) Winslow Homer Cloud Shadows Summer Night Fernand Khnopff – Silence P. S. and Marie Krøyer – Double portrait Henry Herbert La Thangue – Leaving Home George Dunlop Leslie – Sun and Moon Flowers William Logsdail – The Ninth of November (The Lord Mayor's Procession, London, 1888) Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne – Statue of her mother Queen Victoria, at McGill University, Montreal Anna Lea Merritt – Love Locked Out Arturo Michelena – Lastenia Tello de Michelena John Everett Millais Dew-Drenched Furze Lingering Autumn Claude Monet – Boating on the River Epte Albert Joseph Moore – A Summer Night Edvard Munch – Night in Saint-Cloud Roderic O'Conor – La Lisiere du Bois Paul Peel – The Young Botanist Edward Poynter – The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon Henrietta Rae – Ophelia Paul Ranson – Nabis Landscape Odilon Redon – With Closed Eyes (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Frederic Remington – Aiding a Comrade William Blake Richmond – Venus and Anchises Tom Roberts – Shearing the Rams (National Gallery of Victoria) Auguste Rodin – Brother and Sister (bronze) Henri Rousseau – Self-portrait Adalbert Seligmann – Theodor Billroth Operating (approximate date) Georges Seurat – Woman Powdering Herself (Courtauld Institute of Art, London) Paul Signac – Opus 217: Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890 Charles Alexander Smith – L'Assemblée des six-comtés Joseph-Noël Sylvestre – The Sack of Rome by the Barbarians in 410 John Tenniel – Dropping the Pilot (political cartoon) James Tissot – Le rendez vous secret Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Dance at the Moulin Rouge